Bringing Marvel Rivals to Life | Jordan Reynolds

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<v Speaker 2>always by the legend himself, mister Jim Cummings. How are
<v Speaker 2>you doing today, sir?
<v Speaker 1>Hello, Hello Chris. It's another day in.
<v Speaker 2>Paradise, another day indeed, and today we have a very
<v Speaker 2>special guest for you, Nadas and Jordan Reynolds. Thank you
<v Speaker 2>so much for being here.
<v Speaker 1>What's up?
<v Speaker 2>I really appreciate honor to be here.
<v Speaker 1>Thank you.
<v Speaker 3>What a great job. I hit the mic in the beginning.
<v Speaker 2>And I kicked the cameras at the same time you
<v Speaker 2>kicked the camera.
<v Speaker 3>It's all pretty good.
<v Speaker 1>Start all right, Okay, well I'll fall out of my
<v Speaker 1>chair in your honor and yeah saw me. Thanks for
<v Speaker 1>being here man, of course, my pleasure. Dude, you have
<v Speaker 1>a super big trip to get here, right.
<v Speaker 4>No, now, I'm close enough and I used to live
<v Speaker 4>actually in this part of town, so I didn't get
<v Speaker 4>entirely lost until they're like, turn down an alleyway.
<v Speaker 3>I'm like, that's just where you get the Yeah, yeah, yeah, Burbank.
<v Speaker 1>John is going, yeah, well you made it. Thank you
<v Speaker 1>for doing so.
<v Speaker 2>I made it.
<v Speaker 3>No, I wouldn't miss his day for the world.
<v Speaker 1>So well, good, good, good, you know.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. So yeah, where where shall we start? Well?
<v Speaker 2>I want to start. First of all, you have to start.
<v Speaker 2>I have to start with Marvel Rivals because I've been
<v Speaker 2>obsessed for like the past years playing it.
<v Speaker 3>I sure have.
<v Speaker 2>What do you mean, I guarantee you take a guess
<v Speaker 2>what kind of main do I look like?
<v Speaker 3>Tank? You're football player?
<v Speaker 2>You've done your research, all right, look at that. I
<v Speaker 2>feel under this spot like it.
<v Speaker 4>Took me a while because and it just brings up
<v Speaker 4>this other guy who I'm like, he kind of looks
<v Speaker 4>like that.
<v Speaker 3>Oh I see on the Gym's podcast.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, yeah, yep, yeah, you've found me out. I'm
<v Speaker 2>blessing you go so very first was Mantis, played by
<v Speaker 2>the wonderful colleing you O'Shaughnessy, who we actually had on
<v Speaker 2>the podcast as well.
<v Speaker 4>No way, I just met her at the l Capy Tan.
<v Speaker 4>There was a big Marvel Rivals Hollywood Boulevard event. It
<v Speaker 4>was crazy last week and I met her for the
<v Speaker 4>first time.
<v Speaker 2>You guys have such a talented cast.
<v Speaker 3>It's a kid.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah crazy. I mean, who else did we have who
<v Speaker 2>plays Iron Man? Am I dropping?
<v Speaker 3>Which he was great?
<v Speaker 2>He was on the podcast as well as playing some
<v Speaker 2>old names, right because I put it back on.
<v Speaker 4>You played the Hulk, I know, but my guess would
<v Speaker 4>have not been Mantis the.
<v Speaker 2>Freda sure fred at him on the podcast, and of
<v Speaker 2>course you play at Warlock brilliantly. It is I the
<v Speaker 2>I'm telling you your performance, your voice performance. It gives
<v Speaker 2>me chills every time I hear the I'm so great.
<v Speaker 2>I just want to commed you on your performance. Man,
<v Speaker 2>the voice acting in that game is incredible. It's it is.
<v Speaker 4>It's really you never know where anything is going to go, right,
<v Speaker 4>Like even with you do like an animated show or
<v Speaker 4>a game, and you're like, I'm.
<v Speaker 1>Done with and you have to do you have to
<v Speaker 1>do like five hundred Well in case they turn left,
<v Speaker 1>you have to do these four hundred lines, yes, but
<v Speaker 1>if they go straight, then you have these two hundred lines.
<v Speaker 2>Yep.
<v Speaker 1>And if the rock falls and hits you on the
<v Speaker 1>left side of your head, you're I mean, wow, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>what can you can you have?
<v Speaker 4>Can you do a pained effort out of the left
<v Speaker 4>side of your groin?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>What is that?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>Right?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>One game efforts. It's a thing. It's a thing.
<v Speaker 1>I could I could hear the shifting of the gonet.
<v Speaker 1>That was really good. It's my dad, you've done that before.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's a few times.
<v Speaker 1>That's good.
<v Speaker 2>Did you guys go to record together at all?
<v Speaker 3>Never ever? Ever in gaming except it's like what your
<v Speaker 3>the work your dad does?
<v Speaker 4>Right, Like if you're on a performance capture stage and
<v Speaker 4>you put on the gear and all that, then you
<v Speaker 4>have to do this hard thing called memorizing lines, which
<v Speaker 4>is not what I gotten a voiceover for But it's right,
<v Speaker 4>that's where some of these games head is for the
<v Speaker 4>on camera territory skill set. But no, that's the only
<v Speaker 4>time you're ever going to be with a cast made
<v Speaker 4>in video games, and it's I wish I've never got
<v Speaker 4>to experience a cast recording.
<v Speaker 2>Really.
<v Speaker 4>You know my wife, Maria Juno, she's a voice actor.
<v Speaker 4>She's Storm in the game, amongst many other epic gaming characters.
<v Speaker 4>But she, I think, did you I'm going to feel
<v Speaker 4>like an ass if you weren't on the show, But
<v Speaker 4>I think maybe we're youna curious George ever, Oh yeah, okay,
<v Speaker 4>I think she did a cast record maybe before.
<v Speaker 3>COVID, before COVID dimes.
<v Speaker 4>You were there was a cast record, and Frank Welker
<v Speaker 4>was there. You were there, and if you hadnt, Jeff
<v Speaker 4>may have been there, and she was freaking out inside.
<v Speaker 4>She's just like, yeah, you know, because you were so
<v Speaker 4>horrible to her.
<v Speaker 1>That's kidd That sounds about right, oh her? Oh yeah,
<v Speaker 1>like nervy, pushy.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, yes, for like ten autographs we gave her.
<v Speaker 1>Hell absolutely no, no.
<v Speaker 4>But that's the only time she's done like cast records
<v Speaker 4>other than performance capture. So I really, I've done a
<v Speaker 4>lot of improv. You know, I come from Denver's where
<v Speaker 4>I built my career and voice acting, where there's no
<v Speaker 4>character work there.
<v Speaker 3>It's all commercials and stuff.
<v Speaker 4>But I use a thing called the Internet to build
<v Speaker 4>a career, and I wanted to do better, have voice
<v Speaker 4>acting and just but you know, with maybe aspirations to
<v Speaker 4>one day do some character like stuff that I didn't
<v Speaker 4>get a whole lot of access to living in Denver,
<v Speaker 4>and so I did a lot of improv. So I'm
<v Speaker 4>used to having that, like feeding off of the other person.
<v Speaker 4>That's great acting acting is reacting. Yeah, and you don't
<v Speaker 4>get that in gaming at all, So no, you don't.
<v Speaker 4>It's in my opinion, that makes it more difficult because
<v Speaker 4>you're just.
<v Speaker 1>Agree Yeah, I agree. We've talked about it before. You're
<v Speaker 1>you're flying solo, you have to you're using your imagination anyway,
<v Speaker 1>even if you get a room full of people with you.
<v Speaker 1>But boy, when you're just there and I mean, and
<v Speaker 1>then then it's the tedious stuff like Okay, now you're falling,
<v Speaker 1>well it's only ten feet, Okay, now that this time
<v Speaker 1>you're falling about thirty five and a half feet. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>the half matters, okay, and you know, and then you know,
<v Speaker 1>now you're falling from the third moon of Jupiter. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>that's a long fall. Yes, that means the rough one.
<v Speaker 1>So you know you save those for the end of
<v Speaker 1>the session.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, that most of the time they do.
<v Speaker 4>Actually, have you ever had to call a session because
<v Speaker 4>you're like any anything, whether it's animation, gaming, your throat
<v Speaker 4>is so shredded and they can't quite hear that, or
<v Speaker 4>they're like, before you do some permanent damage.
<v Speaker 1>One, no, not not because of damage, but I can
<v Speaker 1>remember and and it luckily, it happened very very early
<v Speaker 1>in my career. And I might have said this before,
<v Speaker 1>but I just I had a cold. And I used
<v Speaker 1>to I mean, I used to work in a steel mill,
<v Speaker 1>I used to work on riverboats, and and uh, you know,
<v Speaker 1>so I have a very blue collar work ethic toward
<v Speaker 1>a no collar Career's just just the way it is. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and uh, and you know, I was sick, and I
<v Speaker 1>kind of sounded like I had a cold, but I
<v Speaker 1>thought to myself, well, no I don't really, but yeah
<v Speaker 1>I did. And uh, And like I said, I just
<v Speaker 1>had this attitude, no gotta get up, got to shut up,
<v Speaker 1>go to work, and I gargle with salt water, went
<v Speaker 1>in and it was the third time I was ever
<v Speaker 1>winning to put and at this point it's like a
<v Speaker 1>thousand times or more and more. Yeah, But then it
<v Speaker 1>was it was brand new, untrottered territory, and I'm just
<v Speaker 1>thinking to myself, well, God, I don't I can't let
<v Speaker 1>them down. I can't, you know, blah blah blah. I'll
<v Speaker 1>just soldier through. And so I got a bunch of
<v Speaker 1>recoiler cough drops, put him in a bottle of water
<v Speaker 1>and shook it up until it looked like, you know,
<v Speaker 1>swamp water, and drank it and sipped it and kind
<v Speaker 1>of gargled my way through it. And then a year
<v Speaker 1>or so later, when it came on, I could hear
<v Speaker 1>the cold, and it was you know, and I think
<v Speaker 1>I was tiggering that show too, So it was weird.
<v Speaker 1>You know, here's Owl, here's Rabbit, here's really you know,
<v Speaker 1>all the Christopher, Robin and then Pooh and Tigger both
<v Speaker 1>had a cold.
<v Speaker 3>Could anyone hear it?
<v Speaker 2>Like?
<v Speaker 3>Could you hear when you heard it?
<v Speaker 1>I could? Yeah, yeah I could. And of course I'm
<v Speaker 1>sure I was exaggerating in my head, but that's all
<v Speaker 1>I could hear. You know, it's like everybody's going to
<v Speaker 1>sit there and go, wow, he should have stayed home,
<v Speaker 1>you know, wow, he really just doesn't respect us at all.
<v Speaker 3>I mean those are different times, pre COVID and all that, right.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, very pre Yeah, this is the eighties, yeah, eighty five.
<v Speaker 4>Where I feel like you just see, like we were
<v Speaker 4>just watching I think it was Adventures and babysitting, you know,
<v Speaker 4>during how crazy crazy the world is right now, we
<v Speaker 4>all want to escape. And it's one of my wife's
<v Speaker 4>favorite movies, and so we put it as a cute
<v Speaker 4>It's just a great wholesome movie.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>But there was a scene where I think some girl
<v Speaker 4>I think it was this movie, but some eighties movie,
<v Speaker 4>where someone comes over to help babysit a really sick
<v Speaker 4>toddler for you know, they're like six or something. I
<v Speaker 4>think the adorable girl who has the thor helmet. I
<v Speaker 4>think she has a cold or something, and they just
<v Speaker 4>no one cares. They're just like around They're like, oh,
<v Speaker 4>here you go, you want to hang out, like they're
<v Speaker 4>just around them, Whereas nowadays, especially as a voice act.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah yeah yeah, yeah.
<v Speaker 4>So but now that's good because I you power through,
<v Speaker 4>which I've done with many sessions, but I've only had
<v Speaker 4>to call one, and I was terrified because it was
<v Speaker 4>my first. I won't say it, but it's one of
<v Speaker 4>my first games, like a big game. The role was
<v Speaker 4>incredibly unimportant.
<v Speaker 1>It was just like watch Out, watch Out, and I
<v Speaker 1>love that guy. Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>Is he great?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah? I signed so many autographs, right, yeah, watch Out.
<v Speaker 3>Well, I'm not kidding. The script was they and they apologize.
<v Speaker 4>They were really professional, but I just think they were
<v Speaker 4>a bit newer to the voice acting directing side of things.
<v Speaker 3>They were used to on camera.
<v Speaker 4>Stuff, so I think they weren't as familiar with how
<v Speaker 4>much you can't push this instrument, and so we did.
<v Speaker 4>We were forty five minutes in and I'd been screening
<v Speaker 4>what I just did. There was a six out of ten.
<v Speaker 4>I was doing ten out of ten, you know, oh
<v Speaker 4>you know, if I swing.
<v Speaker 3>This out, it was you know what?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? Right, so do that for forty five I'm watching it.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, So hopefully you don't get the cops called
<v Speaker 4>it's it's a podcast studio, but I did. But they
<v Speaker 4>kept varying it, so'd be like watch Out Grenade and
<v Speaker 4>I'm not crapping you. It was the next line of
<v Speaker 4>the grenade Comma watch Out, and I.
<v Speaker 1>Was just like, this is this the final script?
<v Speaker 3>Or you guys are just and they were.
<v Speaker 4>They were actually like, wait, isn't it supposed to be?
<v Speaker 4>So I was really feeling it, but I was newer
<v Speaker 4>in my career. I just moved to LA. I was like,
<v Speaker 4>maybe here for a year. Was like twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen.
<v Speaker 4>I was absolutely terrified to even bring it up because again,
<v Speaker 4>like you said, I come, I come a very hard
<v Speaker 4>work like my dad is stilled hard working to me,
<v Speaker 4>like you get the job done. And I, you know,
<v Speaker 4>privately just talked to the director. I'm like, I'm sorry,
<v Speaker 4>I'm not trying to be a diva. I'm like, if
<v Speaker 4>I keep going at this rate, I'm afraid I could
<v Speaker 4>possibly do permanent damage. But more not more importantly, but
<v Speaker 4>and also i won't be able to work the rest
<v Speaker 4>of this week.
<v Speaker 3>And I've got like.
<v Speaker 4>Four auditions for the QUARTERO I get I have a
<v Speaker 4>commercial tomorrow, you know. So they were so polite and
<v Speaker 4>they called it off and then they got the script
<v Speaker 4>more organized when I.
<v Speaker 3>Came back a week later, and they didn't.
<v Speaker 4>Push me as hard you know, so, but I so,
<v Speaker 4>you know, to anyone trying to get in the business
<v Speaker 4>right like you need to You don't need to be like, no,
<v Speaker 4>I need to break every five minutes. You can't get
<v Speaker 4>away with that, No, but you can. You can ask questions.
<v Speaker 4>You can, and all of us actor creative types are
<v Speaker 4>really eager and eager to please, especially in the beginning. Oh,
<v Speaker 4>so I encourage people to, like, no, ask a question
<v Speaker 4>if you don't know what the hell's going on in
<v Speaker 4>the scene, and especially if they're mechanical things going on
<v Speaker 4>where you feel like they're pushing you and you need
<v Speaker 4>to break, ask if you can have a break, or
<v Speaker 4>or if it's got as bad as I got, you
<v Speaker 4>have to call the session, and you know most people
<v Speaker 4>will respect that.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>It's just a fascinating part that you know, I know
<v Speaker 4>you mentioned it often on the podcast. It's the un
<v Speaker 4>sexy party games. Yeah, the throat ripping, shredding stuff, the.
<v Speaker 1>Un sexy part because everything else is pretty darn sexy.
<v Speaker 3>It is.
<v Speaker 4>We like every time we go to our session, Jim
<v Speaker 4>and I, we we put on our thongs and you know,
<v Speaker 4>our coconut.
<v Speaker 1>It's coming back to right now. Yeah, I remember that that,
<v Speaker 1>oh man, oh man, who the fuck it that like
<v Speaker 1>years ago that you would be the king of this
<v Speaker 1>whole groove here with the.
<v Speaker 2>King of what well video?
<v Speaker 1>I mean, they weren't even there games like that. I remember,
<v Speaker 1>like Pong. Yes, when I was you know, et your
<v Speaker 1>sketch was knocked me out. Now we've got a universes.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, you've got that. It's like you're in in
<v Speaker 1>who are you? You're an avenger, aren't you? What? What
<v Speaker 1>do you mean?
<v Speaker 3>You're an adventer?
<v Speaker 4>And what he's talking about as an avenger?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, as an adventure Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>So actually I think it was Frank Welker that does
<v Speaker 4>the beeps and boops in Pong. It's probably him, probably,
<v Speaker 4>I mean, what doesn't doesn't he done?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, we've we've talked about him a lot. Yeah. One
<v Speaker 1>of my favorites was Spock's scream in the Wrath of
<v Speaker 1>khn No No, Kirk scream in Wrath of Khan.
<v Speaker 3>I don't, I haven't. I've seen clips. I think I've seen.
<v Speaker 3>It's like a meme.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know.
<v Speaker 3>Williams. Has william been on here?
<v Speaker 1>Not yet?
<v Speaker 2>Oh man. I saw him the other day though. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>the Saturn Awards the other day.
<v Speaker 3>I feel like that's crazy.
<v Speaker 4>Everything all my social media feed this week has been
<v Speaker 4>like Saturn Awards. Yeah, oh yeah, I guess I'll see
<v Speaker 4>him on their next Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>It was a good time. It was a good time.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, yeah.
<v Speaker 1>And if you scroll right to the end, you might
<v Speaker 1>see me.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah presenting.
<v Speaker 1>Oh cool? Present?
<v Speaker 3>Would you what awards you present? If you remember?
<v Speaker 1>Special effects?
<v Speaker 3>Oh? Sweet?
<v Speaker 2>And guess who won?
<v Speaker 3>H I l am, I don't know what person you
<v Speaker 3>it's a movie.
<v Speaker 2>It's yeah, I won Best Specialistffects.
<v Speaker 3>I thought you were like effects from what I heard.
<v Speaker 2>I like what I do with the hitting record on
<v Speaker 2>these cameras.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so you know, me said.
<v Speaker 2>You've worked on it's got the recording logo up on
<v Speaker 2>the TV. That's a Saturn Award right there.
<v Speaker 3>I cly thought something I can't avoid.
<v Speaker 2>No, it was Avatar, Fire and Ash for special effects. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>James Cameron won like I think, like six awards that night.
<v Speaker 3>It was insane.
<v Speaker 4>I mean, you don't that much money to a movie
<v Speaker 4>and then take twenty years to make it.
<v Speaker 3>You'd hope you can get some damn.
<v Speaker 2>But it's interesting too, like back to kind of like
<v Speaker 2>video games. I mean he talked about you know, the
<v Speaker 2>method of filming Avatar is kind of similar to the
<v Speaker 2>motion capture that a lot of video games use these days.
<v Speaker 2>You know, they don't even use like a physical camera.
<v Speaker 2>It's like it's like a little iPad looking thing and
<v Speaker 2>it like triangulates where a camera would be, so they
<v Speaker 2>can move it all around in a virtual space, you know,
<v Speaker 2>like like the void. You know, like how they do
<v Speaker 2>that motion capture. Have you done anything motion capture? You
<v Speaker 2>seem very familiar with it.
<v Speaker 4>I'm familiar just because I have so many friends and
<v Speaker 4>people who've done it. I have done a few classes,
<v Speaker 4>but the most I've done is facial capture. So they
<v Speaker 4>literally put a whole helmet on and there's like a
<v Speaker 4>camera on a pole, there's lights in your face. So
<v Speaker 4>I did it for Batman Arkham, the one that came
<v Speaker 4>out the VR QUD No, not that that's what it's called,
<v Speaker 4>but it's like there's all these Arkham there's like five
<v Speaker 4>different Arkham games, but it's the latest one that came
<v Speaker 4>out on the meta VR headset last year or two
<v Speaker 4>years ago. So Maro actually plays essentially the lady who
<v Speaker 4>helps raise Batman. Bruce Wayne and Harvey Dent as kids
<v Speaker 4>in a way, and then I play like, I play.
<v Speaker 1>This I play this guy named bird Like and there's
<v Speaker 1>this camera.
<v Speaker 3>I could barely see the script because there's lights in
<v Speaker 3>my face.
<v Speaker 4>So I'm like, can you turn up the brightness on
<v Speaker 4>the TV because there's so many bright lights in my
<v Speaker 4>face to capture you know, my my facial and lips performance.
<v Speaker 3>And then they put that on the character.
<v Speaker 2>You know, you have to do that for Hondo. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>face it was just face, my face.
<v Speaker 3>It's better just have face.
<v Speaker 2>It was for the Star Wars Outlaws Outlaws.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, yeah, video game or whatever it was, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>some kind of yeah, unbelievable. Yeah. The stuff that that
<v Speaker 1>goes on now is like, do.
<v Speaker 2>You feel like that because you have you know, that's
<v Speaker 2>a fairly new thing. Do you feel like that interrupts
<v Speaker 2>your performance or is that a challenge to act around
<v Speaker 2>or is it just something that you have to deal with.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'm not crazy about it. Yeah, you know, it's
<v Speaker 1>not I'd rather first of all, I'd rather not have
<v Speaker 1>that for cocta thing on my head that that's for sure.
<v Speaker 1>But I mean, but but I mean, you look at
<v Speaker 1>I got nothing to complain about, like, look at your
<v Speaker 1>dad all the stuff he had to go through for
<v Speaker 1>forgot war. You know, got a war. I was like, cray,
<v Speaker 1>you actually had war.
<v Speaker 3>War with all the equipment all over your body.
<v Speaker 1>And yeah, yeah, it's a lot. It's a totally different form. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I just want to sit in a room with a microphone.
<v Speaker 1>Thank you.
<v Speaker 4>It's uh, that's a little easier memorization.
<v Speaker 1>Just go in right.
<v Speaker 3>But that's actually one thing.
<v Speaker 4>How do you feel, Jim from doing you know, you're
<v Speaker 4>one of the kings of animation and having done a
<v Speaker 4>lot of games though too, and and in at least
<v Speaker 4>in my experience with games, you rarely get the script beforehand.
<v Speaker 3>You just it's all cold reading.
<v Speaker 4>We go, yeah, cold read an animation you get you
<v Speaker 4>tend to get the script at least a day before days.
<v Speaker 3>It is usually pretty cold.
<v Speaker 1>No, just a lot of times. I mean mostly it's
<v Speaker 1>the first time I read it. I'm on a mic microphone.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>Is that by choice kind of yeah?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, because you can always do take two, Yeah, but
<v Speaker 1>you can never do take one the way you might
<v Speaker 1>have done it had you read it like the day before.
<v Speaker 1>There's nothing wrong with being familiar with the character. But
<v Speaker 1>line by line, I just prefer, you know, to go
<v Speaker 1>off instincts. You know. That's kind of the way I've
<v Speaker 1>just always done it. And that's harder and harder to
<v Speaker 1>do now because it's all on an etrascale, an iPad
<v Speaker 1>or something, you know. And they used to. It's funny
<v Speaker 1>because a friend of mine, Dave Wright, who's like head
<v Speaker 1>of everything now over at Disney, he used to be
<v Speaker 1>the guy twenty five years ago, thirty years ago. He
<v Speaker 1>would be the guy who would drive out and I
<v Speaker 1>always lived out in like Ventura County or Westlake Village,
<v Speaker 1>somewhere Santa Rosa Valley, and he'd come. I remember once
<v Speaker 1>it was. And if he's ever on the podcast, and
<v Speaker 1>you will be, Dave. So there it was the fourth
<v Speaker 1>of July and and and my doorbell rings, and I
<v Speaker 1>wouldn't have even heard it because we're all out in
<v Speaker 1>the back. But I just went and been there and
<v Speaker 1>I go, what the hell are you doing here? He goes,
<v Speaker 1>I'm bringing you your script. And I go, I'm not
<v Speaker 1>going to read it. He goes, what do you mean.
<v Speaker 1>I go, I'm not going to read it, but you
<v Speaker 1>brought it, so come on in and have a chicken
<v Speaker 1>wing you know, you know that's wild.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and delivering the script. Times have changed.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, that reminds me of this one scene in
<v Speaker 2>what was that movie Entourage? Oh and Jeremy Pivens's character,
<v Speaker 2>I forget what the character his name. Anyway, they go
<v Speaker 2>to a comedy show and he accidentally switches briefcases with
<v Speaker 2>this guy and has a script that he has to
<v Speaker 2>read by the next day, and he like tracks it
<v Speaker 2>down and he's it's ends up in Oxnard, and he's like, Oxnard,
<v Speaker 2>the fuck.
<v Speaker 4>Is every time I hear Actually, it's the first time
<v Speaker 4>I've ever been there. I just drove there last weekend
<v Speaker 4>to pick up I'm ripped up all the carpet in
<v Speaker 4>my studio. No, I drove ox Starn't to pick up
<v Speaker 4>a script. Yeah, they make us work.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you really earn these.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, you know they're like, oh, gas is going up,
<v Speaker 4>We'll go pick up your script.
<v Speaker 3>We don't care, Hollywood.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe.
<v Speaker 3>No, I went to go pick.
<v Speaker 4>Up flooring, putting new flooring in my studio like an
<v Speaker 4>old carpet, and it was cozy and squishy, but it
<v Speaker 4>was disgusting to look at. So uh But yeah, I'm like,
<v Speaker 4>we're I've heard what ox not what and I drove
<v Speaker 4>over there, and so it's kind of funny you bring
<v Speaker 4>up oxnar pretty I'm now familiar.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's that.
<v Speaker 4>Where it was, It's where the wood was in stock
<v Speaker 4>So you.
<v Speaker 2>Know what made you want to get into voiceover?
<v Speaker 1>Man?
<v Speaker 2>And when did you know?
<v Speaker 1>Man?
<v Speaker 4>It's it was kind of like a slow trickle for
<v Speaker 4>me where you know, being raised in Colorado, I'm not
<v Speaker 4>exposed to anything entertainment business wise at all than just
<v Speaker 4>watching TV. And we didn't even have you know, we're
<v Speaker 4>low income and on a good year, you know, middle class,
<v Speaker 4>lots of kids, and my dad had his own carpet
<v Speaker 4>cleaning business and my mom was essentially the full time
<v Speaker 4>assistant doing home and calls and you know, so it
<v Speaker 4>was it was hard work for my parents to they
<v Speaker 4>worked their butt off so.
<v Speaker 3>We we couldn't afford.
<v Speaker 1>Was that my too? Yeah, we used to dream of
<v Speaker 1>being lower class. Definitely, we were just poperday stricken. People
<v Speaker 1>would love on us more.
<v Speaker 4>But what the point I was making with that is
<v Speaker 4>we didn't have cable TV. So while all my friends,
<v Speaker 4>you know and the nineties and stuff were having cable
<v Speaker 4>I would I would go next door to watch Nickelodeon
<v Speaker 4>and all the shows that weren't on just the four
<v Speaker 4>channels we got with ore like TV, so I didn't
<v Speaker 4>get to see a lot unless I went somewhere else.
<v Speaker 1>Did you have the aluminum oil on the raviad ears
<v Speaker 1>no actual foil? But I definitely mess with the because
<v Speaker 1>we okay, because we had that and I thought it
<v Speaker 1>was brilliant at it. Okay, now, nobody move and we'll
<v Speaker 1>see the because I'm watching Captain Kangaroo here.
<v Speaker 4>So yeah, it's kind of like it's sounded kind of
<v Speaker 4>like the Dad and Christmas story, like like you know, goes.
<v Speaker 3>Black, nobody move, a fuse is out.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, but the purpose of the Dad wanting to fix everything.
<v Speaker 4>I love that character. But yeah, anyways, yeah, my voice everything,
<v Speaker 4>I you know, I just consumed at the shows that
<v Speaker 4>I watched the most were like Animaniacs with my mom.
<v Speaker 4>It was like Frasier and Animaniacs, two.
<v Speaker 1>Completely different shows.
<v Speaker 3>But that's when my mom and I bonded over. Mister Bean.
<v Speaker 3>Add that to the list because PBS, it's great Rowan
<v Speaker 3>Edkinson Atkinson the parrot and it's not a damn parrot.
<v Speaker 3>What is he in the line? Kid?
<v Speaker 1>Was uh the con Yes, that show, but I don't
<v Speaker 1>know that he was can.
<v Speaker 2>Wasn't he a two can?
<v Speaker 6>No?
<v Speaker 2>It was you're thinking of the fruit loops? Yeah, the
<v Speaker 2>fruit loops guy are like the same bird?
<v Speaker 1>No, no, come on, this is live. Call us right
<v Speaker 1>now and.
<v Speaker 2>Tell us what kind of bird is? I need to
<v Speaker 2>know when I thought he was a two ken this
<v Speaker 2>whole time.
<v Speaker 4>He's like more plain color, gosh right, whereas more colors.
<v Speaker 2>You know, this is the most extensive bird knowledge.
<v Speaker 1>I know.
<v Speaker 4>You don't edit this out because it's it's it's vital.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, everybody's sitting at home going he's a macaw's either
<v Speaker 1>or what a vulture? You know. I don't know what he.
<v Speaker 2>Is throwing tomatoes at, that's for sure. No, he's not
<v Speaker 2>a flamingo or an eagle. I know those ones.
<v Speaker 1>No, it's not a flaming. Oh that's okay.
<v Speaker 3>Well, god, you know what my sister would know. She's
<v Speaker 3>actually really into birds.
<v Speaker 4>So you know, I might have to call phone a friend,
<v Speaker 4>you know, the weakest link. But anyways, on the cartoon stuff,
<v Speaker 4>you know, I mostly I watched a lot of stuff
<v Speaker 4>on repeat because we didn't we would record Simpsons episodes
<v Speaker 4>and Animaniacs episodes.
<v Speaker 1>And then we vhs. Yes, there you go.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, I'm old enough.
<v Speaker 1>Remember.
<v Speaker 4>I feel like on streaming services, by the way, it
<v Speaker 4>used to be able to, like if you have an
<v Speaker 4>Apple TV, you could just kind of swipe through like quickly,
<v Speaker 4>like digitally, And I feel like, do you feel like
<v Speaker 4>these apps now?
<v Speaker 3>It's like they're very clunky.
<v Speaker 4>It's all slow now, like a VCR, like you tap
<v Speaker 4>on it and you see it going like ten seconds,
<v Speaker 4>ten seconds.
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to go back to the VCR.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>Anyways, add but watched a lot of the stuff and
<v Speaker 4>it heard you dark Wing Duck. I didn't get to
<v Speaker 4>see much of Winnie the Poop.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know.
<v Speaker 4>Why, just some for somebody say in the household.
<v Speaker 3>I know, so you're the one that I leave.
<v Speaker 1>You're the worst.
<v Speaker 4>But I didn't have like a lot of Winnie the
<v Speaker 4>Pooh exposure for whatever reason. But anyways, point being is
<v Speaker 4>just the cartoon stuff I love. But I never was like,
<v Speaker 4>you know, like you said you're a five, You're like
<v Speaker 4>you knew you know.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah I didn't.
<v Speaker 1>Or you didn't know I did one did the bug
<v Speaker 1>whatever it is.
<v Speaker 4>It was really was kind of playing around with voices.
<v Speaker 4>I had older sisters and they would I would just
<v Speaker 4>impersonate various Simpsons characters sloppily, and I just liked making
<v Speaker 4>them laugh. You know, any who doesn't like making someone laugh.
<v Speaker 4>It's very because it's disarming. It's like the most vulnerable
<v Speaker 4>point you could be. I feel is laughing in my opinion.
<v Speaker 4>And when I was the second youngest of six, so
<v Speaker 4>I kind of like it wasn't lost in this stuff,
<v Speaker 4>but like it was, well.
<v Speaker 1>That's good. Yeah, but like you got to you got
<v Speaker 1>to learn how to tap dance, come home. Yeah, keep
<v Speaker 1>them from killing you because you're you're the youngest.
<v Speaker 3>I was really lucky though.
<v Speaker 4>Actually I didn't get the whole like you know, older
<v Speaker 4>sibling bully treatment.
<v Speaker 3>They were very good kind to me. I don't know
<v Speaker 3>because I tap dance enough. But yeah, but I would do.
<v Speaker 4>I just got the bug of like, oh this is
<v Speaker 4>I like making them laugh and they I was in
<v Speaker 4>the The Magic Flute Opera in like fifth grade.
<v Speaker 3>You know whatever it means.
<v Speaker 4>Iway was literally had one line as someone I don't
<v Speaker 4>remember what I'm like. Some would think something come down
<v Speaker 4>to the whatever and watch a great yeah role of
<v Speaker 4>the Century.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, it wasn't it. It was a tree, wasn't it.
<v Speaker 3>It was a tree with huge lips on it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's mine.
<v Speaker 3>And but but I was in.
<v Speaker 4>The rehearsals all the time, so I'd hear all the songs.
<v Speaker 4>And you know that I can't hit anymore, but when
<v Speaker 4>I was a choir boy age, you know the song like,
<v Speaker 4>I'm hitting the notes pretty poorly. But it's a very
<v Speaker 4>hard song to sing. It's sung in the Amideis film,
<v Speaker 4>if you remember that, my favorite film of all time. Yes,
<v Speaker 4>there's a part where she's kind of warming up singing it,
<v Speaker 4>and it's a hard ass song.
<v Speaker 3>I sing it like the lyrics very well.
<v Speaker 1>Remember that that's not bad.
<v Speaker 4>I can't retain lyrics at all. So it was the
<v Speaker 4>perfect song for me. It is that, yeah, And so
<v Speaker 4>I would sing it and my sisters would laugh at me.
<v Speaker 4>And I first thought they were laughing like at me, Oh,
<v Speaker 4>you sound so stupid or ridiculous, right, And I'm like
<v Speaker 4>still laughing at me, and they're like, no, we're laughing
<v Speaker 4>because it's so like spot on, Like you sound like
<v Speaker 4>you sound like the late you know, as a kid
<v Speaker 4>put your voice. I was like, oh, okay, so kind
<v Speaker 4>of that little taste of that little entertainment thing. But
<v Speaker 4>I was very quite shy as a kid. When my
<v Speaker 4>parents they're like, oh, yeah, like, what's Jordan doing.
<v Speaker 1>So many actors are shy as children?
<v Speaker 3>Really were you?
<v Speaker 1>Kind of?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah at first, okay, because you said you did a
<v Speaker 4>lot of like theater and stuff.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and I but but nevertheless, like I would be
<v Speaker 1>shy at first, and then you couldn't shut me up,
<v Speaker 1>so I went.
<v Speaker 2>On, you went to the other Yeah, oh you mean you.
<v Speaker 4>You eventually shifted to yeah mouth, Yeah, I think so. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>well that paid off good. Yeah, you have to learn
<v Speaker 4>how to at least do this.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. My joke is that I'm actually a failed mime.
<v Speaker 1>You know, right, Jim, we can hear you. You're you're
<v Speaker 1>not You're not crooked, You're you're stuck. You know.
<v Speaker 3>That's wild. But yeah, I didn't.
<v Speaker 4>I was actually shy enough or just not confident enough
<v Speaker 4>that I didn't do any acting things anything. In junior
<v Speaker 4>high high school. The most I did performative wise was
<v Speaker 4>I was just in the the advanced dish choir. I
<v Speaker 4>got we were like in all state choir in junior high,
<v Speaker 4>but I never did the solos. I didn't try out
<v Speaker 4>for the solos. Well, sorry, I take that.
<v Speaker 3>Back.
<v Speaker 4>In elementary school, I was the tin man that totally forgot.
<v Speaker 4>I was a tin man and the Wizard of Oz.
<v Speaker 4>So a man's see I camera lyrics.
<v Speaker 3>Kettle from on his metal and now no more.
<v Speaker 4>Hearts are gonna destroy me in the comments. I'm sorry,
<v Speaker 4>But so that was. I like that, but clearly not
<v Speaker 4>enough to pursue it once you hit puberty. Because when
<v Speaker 4>you hit puberty, everything is serious and you think everything's
<v Speaker 4>out to get you and you have no confidence.
<v Speaker 3>So I think I just kind of.
<v Speaker 4>You get And I had many Yeah, I had a
<v Speaker 4>bad acne problem, so you know, the typical teenage stuff,
<v Speaker 4>and so yeah, I was.
<v Speaker 3>I didn't have that, like I gotta I gotta perform
<v Speaker 3>and moved to Hollywood.
<v Speaker 4>That wasn't me, but I did joke. I loved music.
<v Speaker 4>I liked singing in choir enough like where it was interesting.
<v Speaker 4>It got a creative bug at me. Couldn't reach sheet
<v Speaker 4>music to save my life. So my acchoir teacher, she
<v Speaker 4>was so sweet. Missus missus Shipley if you ever ever
<v Speaker 4>see this interview.
<v Speaker 1>She's a huge fan.
<v Speaker 3>But seriously, she was so sweet.
<v Speaker 4>And patient with me because she would do the tests
<v Speaker 4>where at the end of the semester you have to
<v Speaker 4>be written, you know, like what is this note and all?
<v Speaker 1>And I would fail all of that, right.
<v Speaker 4>Like all my other classes, like algebra and everything, I
<v Speaker 4>did horrible and absolutely horrible. Yeah, but choir I would
<v Speaker 4>try to at least get the B minus or so sure, yeah, right,
<v Speaker 4>and so the test I would fail that written test.
<v Speaker 4>And then she there was the ear test, which I
<v Speaker 4>would always play, like Simon says, like play twelve notes
<v Speaker 4>and then I would play it, you.
<v Speaker 1>Know, la la la la la la la la la
<v Speaker 1>la la.
<v Speaker 3>And so my.
<v Speaker 4>Ability to hit the notes and have a good ear
<v Speaker 4>was there, and she was kind enough to be like.
<v Speaker 3>He's a little talented.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah right, and so but anyways, I don't know
<v Speaker 4>where I'm going with this other than like where'd I
<v Speaker 4>get the whole voiceover thing?
<v Speaker 3>Right?
<v Speaker 1>Sure?
<v Speaker 3>Those were just kind of a little play you put
<v Speaker 3>it all together.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>I would also impersonate teachers, so oh yeah, me too. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>which do you remember teacher impressions?
<v Speaker 1>Well, I remember thinking that well, and I've said this before.
<v Speaker 1>I don't want to be redundant, but if you do
<v Speaker 1>a bad impression of somebody famous, yeah, nobody knows who
<v Speaker 1>it is, that's a new character. If you do a
<v Speaker 1>perfect impression of somebody like your teacher who nobody even
<v Speaker 1>heard of, that's a new character.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so you know you can put those it's everything.
<v Speaker 1>You can use.
<v Speaker 4>Everything, absolutely, and people will never know unless you tell,
<v Speaker 4>and they'll never know.
<v Speaker 1>Just it, that's right.
<v Speaker 2>But I didn't even realize, like, like you just said,
<v Speaker 2>I didn't even realize that Winnie the Pooh and the
<v Speaker 2>Chasure Cat were so close together. Oh, until Jim told me.
<v Speaker 2>He was like, yeah, it's kind of just like, how
<v Speaker 2>do you describe it?
<v Speaker 1>Well, yeah, cat was winning the Poo on acid.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, how close those voices are.
<v Speaker 1>And Ca the snake from Jungle Book, the original Jungle
<v Speaker 1>Book that was also Sterling Holloway, God rest his soul,
<v Speaker 1>and he was evil Pooh trust sting me. Oh my god. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that's and you know these characters hypnotizing Moldly and then
<v Speaker 1>eating him.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, it's the that's the best scene in the movie.
<v Speaker 4>That's I think that's my favorite scene in the whole
<v Speaker 4>movie too.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I really like it.
<v Speaker 4>Funny, Like, there's just so much you could take you
<v Speaker 4>could watch it on mute, you could just listen to it.
<v Speaker 1>Then you it's and I got to play that role
<v Speaker 1>years later, many many, like like twenty years had gone
<v Speaker 1>by and they decided on video they were going to
<v Speaker 1>make Jungle Book two, and uh Ka was in there,
<v Speaker 1>and so I got to be kaw No. They just
<v Speaker 1>kind of hird me because it's right though, yeah, well
<v Speaker 1>it is. It's see. Sterling really didn't have uh back
<v Speaker 1>in the day. I mean character actors like below that
<v Speaker 1>was just Phil Harris talking.
<v Speaker 2>You do it very little bridges.
<v Speaker 1>You know, everything's a bit of a strain there.
<v Speaker 3>You know, like for each each line.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but and you know a lot of those like
<v Speaker 1>John Fiedler the Great he was Piglet. That was him talking.
<v Speaker 3>Oh okay, I just enough.
<v Speaker 1>That was his big line. And uh And then like
<v Speaker 1>I said, Sterling all the way, he's the one. If
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<v Speaker 1>I was down in Laguna Beach many many, many many
<v Speaker 1>years ago, way before I was even in the business,
<v Speaker 1>and I heard this. You couldn't see who was in
<v Speaker 1>the booths, but I thought I was the only person
<v Speaker 1>in the restaurant. And waitress walks over and says, do
<v Speaker 1>you have any decision? Have you come to? What would
<v Speaker 1>you like for lunch? Apparently he's been sitting there for
<v Speaker 1>a while, and you hear this little voice, Yes, I
<v Speaker 1>believe I shall have the choulder. And I was like, going, wait,
<v Speaker 1>the pool, and there he was. I went and I
<v Speaker 1>looked back and there was Sterling and he's probably about
<v Speaker 1>in his nineties and had all this big shock of
<v Speaker 1>haystack of white hair sitting there looking at me like that,
<v Speaker 1>and I wish I went up to him.
<v Speaker 3>Oh wait, have you ever met him? No, that was
<v Speaker 3>your opportunity, wastunity. Oh winchell.
<v Speaker 1>I knew he was a friend of mine, God rest
<v Speaker 1>is so he's a legend. Yeah, he was great and
<v Speaker 1>uh yeah, And I had a lot of a lot
<v Speaker 1>of interaction with Paul. He was a good guy. That's
<v Speaker 1>so cool.
<v Speaker 3>Wow.
<v Speaker 4>So yeah, it's it's weird being able to meet especially
<v Speaker 4>like for you to like voices you have literally inherited,
<v Speaker 4>you know, if you ever get that opportunity to meet
<v Speaker 4>the first person to do that.
<v Speaker 1>Wow. But never got to meet David Crockett though, damn it.
<v Speaker 3>Someday someday.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, but oh.
<v Speaker 3>God, oh go ahead, Oh no, I was no.
<v Speaker 4>I was trying to stay on track if you wanted,
<v Speaker 4>in terms of the because I never really concluded.
<v Speaker 3>The whole How did I.
<v Speaker 1>Get in a voice?
<v Speaker 3>Thing?
<v Speaker 2>Did it was?
<v Speaker 1>It was?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>Was that it was a Ford fair Lane?
<v Speaker 3>Yes, oh yeah, Ford, I wish that's a cool car.
<v Speaker 4>But no, it was just like I had little hints
<v Speaker 4>of just like that creativity where.
<v Speaker 6>Mister Sperry is who I would impersonate to the class
<v Speaker 6>if he would, I think, if he was ready late
<v Speaker 6>he he, I would you know, kind of be like,
<v Speaker 6>all right, class, the word of the day is tune
<v Speaker 6>in exclamation, you know, and so it would make a
<v Speaker 6>class laugh.
<v Speaker 3>Because I was not popular.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, so any anything to feel popular for about ten
<v Speaker 4>seconds I would attempted, and it worked half the time.
<v Speaker 4>So so you know those little things where it was like, oh,
<v Speaker 4>this is fun and.
<v Speaker 1>You were doing research for your future unintentionally.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and then when did you decide to make it
<v Speaker 2>a career.
<v Speaker 4>It was it was just a slow effect where you know,
<v Speaker 4>in my early twenties, people I would I worked at
<v Speaker 4>Dish Network tech support, the five thirty am to two
<v Speaker 4>thirty am shift.
<v Speaker 3>Which voices on the phone.
<v Speaker 1>No I went in, I may no, I didn't.
<v Speaker 4>Do voices, but but what would happen is, uh, it
<v Speaker 4>was always like very elderly lady in particular, it would
<v Speaker 4>be they just can't sleep, so they'd be calling in
<v Speaker 4>at like one in the morning to get their Addish
<v Speaker 4>network fixed, and so I'd help them troubleshoot, you know,
<v Speaker 4>I'm plug this, do that, and always to get like
<v Speaker 4>their Golden Girls fixed or something. And I didn't, by
<v Speaker 4>the way, I didn't appreciate how good. I thought that
<v Speaker 4>show was lame for.
<v Speaker 3>Old ladies, right until like this past.
<v Speaker 4>Five ten years, Like this show is rellily that shows
<v Speaker 4>of all time, the best actors of all time. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>I adore so I'm a full Golden Girls confer by
<v Speaker 4>the way, But back then, I'm like it's.
<v Speaker 3>Just this old lady show.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, yeah, anyway, that's true.
<v Speaker 3>Oh I adore them so much.
<v Speaker 1>I think that show is My wife's crazy about them.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>So anyways, these old Ladies in particular is mostly them.
<v Speaker 4>And I would be like, is there anything else I
<v Speaker 4>can help you with today? Man, you're all sorted out,
<v Speaker 4>and it's.
<v Speaker 1>Like, oh no, but you have shuts a nice voice.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe maybe you should get into radio.
<v Speaker 3>And I'm like, oh wow, maybe maybe I should. I was.
<v Speaker 4>It just gave me a little like oh thanks, because
<v Speaker 4>I felt, you know, what's the funnest job.
<v Speaker 3>I didn't feel.
<v Speaker 1>I wasn't like ashamed, but I also wasn't proud of
<v Speaker 1>it was just a job.
<v Speaker 3>And so it gave me.
<v Speaker 4>It was like okay, noted, and that kept happening, and
<v Speaker 4>other people in maybe friend circles would just say something
<v Speaker 4>like you have a nice voice. So that led me
<v Speaker 4>to take classes or getting your voice is very radio
<v Speaker 4>esque to me, Like that I've done. I literally thought
<v Speaker 4>that zero radio. You never doubt, and thank god I didn't,
<v Speaker 4>because all I hear horror stories like horrible pay, horrible
<v Speaker 4>job conditions, underappreciated. It's fun and that's what keeps these
<v Speaker 4>DJs there. My wife was an FM radio DJ on
<v Speaker 4>three stations at the same time.
<v Speaker 3>Literally oh wow, the same like one day and does she.
<v Speaker 1>Say hello out there that gallon.
<v Speaker 3>No, not like the jazz lady.
<v Speaker 4>She was more she had awaken bake show, it is
<v Speaker 4>what it was called, but they weren't actually you know,
<v Speaker 4>it was just called like, yeah, it was a talk
<v Speaker 4>show in the morning, like kind of like breakfast club
<v Speaker 4>right where it's just like very personality driven. And then
<v Speaker 4>she was also like a more polished I think it
<v Speaker 4>was like at least a logan on a country station.
<v Speaker 3>So she didn't like completely shift her voices. But I've
<v Speaker 3>heard the horror stories of Ratio, so I'm like not
<v Speaker 3>going to go that way, no, thank you.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>And so I took classes and read books, and this
<v Speaker 4>is the days of like MySpace and stuff. So I
<v Speaker 4>was finding voice actors, but not like big names like you.
<v Speaker 4>People like you weren't really accessible. So I was connecting
<v Speaker 4>with people that were like living in Ohio and they're
<v Speaker 4>making six figures doing just commercials and training videos and
<v Speaker 4>phone like thank you for calling. I'm like, what you
<v Speaker 4>can make a you know, in volume, you can make
<v Speaker 4>money doing that. So that's what got me interested doing
<v Speaker 4>using my voice, and it's really fun. It's some of
<v Speaker 4>it's boring, but it's more creative than working a regular
<v Speaker 4>job and a cubicle underfloor my life.
<v Speaker 3>So it was a long burn.
<v Speaker 4>I just I consumed everything. I absorbed it, but I
<v Speaker 4>didn't do with it for years.
<v Speaker 3>Right, It's very easy.
<v Speaker 4>Anyone wants to become a painter a biker voice actor,
<v Speaker 4>It's very easy to go up to your table and
<v Speaker 4>ask Jim, how do I get in voiceover? And you
<v Speaker 4>can give them everything that's to be perfect for them,
<v Speaker 4>and you know their age and in this generation, and
<v Speaker 4>it's very rare anyone's going to follow that because the
<v Speaker 4>doing part is the hardest part and we're all guilty
<v Speaker 4>of it. So eventually I got I you know, all right, jo,
<v Speaker 4>when you actually want to make money at this, like
<v Speaker 4>or do you want to keep I had a very
<v Speaker 4>comfortable it job, so I used to build computers and
<v Speaker 4>stuff like that, so I didn't go to the college thing.
<v Speaker 4>I'm like, yeah, failed high school, I had to take
<v Speaker 4>a fifth year. I'm not going to pay money to
<v Speaker 4>you know, fail again, So I pay for the college part.
<v Speaker 4>Let me just get a job, and then I got
<v Speaker 4>a pretty nice it job from just my nerd knowledge.
<v Speaker 1>But I'm like, I don't know if i want to
<v Speaker 1>do this my whole life.
<v Speaker 3>I'm too creative.
<v Speaker 4>I just like I get more joy when I'm in
<v Speaker 4>these improv classes when I'm making people laugh. So it
<v Speaker 4>was just more and I'm like, the idea that I
<v Speaker 4>could make money and pay all my bills and not
<v Speaker 4>just be this little side hobby thing was very appealing
<v Speaker 4>and satisfying.
<v Speaker 1>It.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so long story longer. Yeah, I took enough classes.
<v Speaker 4>And and then built you know, did everything online.
<v Speaker 3>Just everything was online.
<v Speaker 4>Voice one two three was the main website I used
<v Speaker 4>to just you just you pay four hundred bucks at
<v Speaker 4>the time a year. You get access to audition for
<v Speaker 4>anything that goes up. So I booked radio commercials, training videos,
<v Speaker 4>so you.
<v Speaker 1>Get one gig out of it and you paid for it.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, exactly, And it was I think the first
<v Speaker 4>one was four hundred bucks. So so and you build
<v Speaker 4>your own clients and then you eventually can get an agent.
<v Speaker 1>So it was the more of your agency.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, it's in Colorado, you know, like because I built
<v Speaker 4>my career in Colorado, and my wife Mary and Denver
<v Speaker 4>Metro was Golden and then in my adulthood it was like,
<v Speaker 4>you know, Broomfield was North Denver, so Denver area, and
<v Speaker 4>my wife Mary built her career in Louisiana.
<v Speaker 3>And you're from Louisiana, right.
<v Speaker 1>Well, been a long long time there. Yeah, she was
<v Speaker 1>moved there out of high school in Homa.
<v Speaker 3>Have you heard of Homa?
<v Speaker 1>Played there many times?
<v Speaker 3>Oh really?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? You played drums, right, drums and sing?
<v Speaker 3>Okay, like at the same time.
<v Speaker 1>Well, yes, wow, but actually the band, well, I was
<v Speaker 1>in a couple of bands in New Orleans. But the
<v Speaker 1>one band that I was in that I actually didn't
<v Speaker 1>have to have another job in the only one was
<v Speaker 1>a band Infusion, and I was just the singer. So
<v Speaker 1>I played tambourine. I was lead tambourine.
<v Speaker 3>You played, but you.
<v Speaker 4>Played it all like sexy like Robert Plan you know,
<v Speaker 4>Oh right, that was you.
<v Speaker 3>You're like that was understudy. Yes, it doesn't. He sometimes
<v Speaker 3>have a tambourine during his moments when the guitar.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know, I don't think so, No, I don't
<v Speaker 1>think he doesn't.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, no, all right, maybe there's some rock band.
<v Speaker 1>Nets that that's the Yeah, whatever, that however, that's how
<v Speaker 1>it goes. Yeah that was him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good.
<v Speaker 2>And I'm just so hard to believe that you were
<v Speaker 2>bad in school. You might be the most researched guess
<v Speaker 2>we've ever had.
<v Speaker 4>Oh yeah, yeah, you don't even I could drop all
<v Speaker 4>the research we've had.
<v Speaker 2>People to show up and they didn't even know it
<v Speaker 2>was on camera.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, well, you know what, that might just be driven
<v Speaker 4>from my the deep shame I had from being such
<v Speaker 4>a horrific student, you know, like because it's embarrassing, right,
<v Speaker 4>Like you have never bothered me, Really you weren't, you.
<v Speaker 1>Know, I mean I kind out. I only I felt
<v Speaker 1>bad about it because my parents made me feel bad.
<v Speaker 2>About it, as they should for you.
<v Speaker 1>And I stupidly, you know, I went to a Catholic
<v Speaker 1>school all twelve twelve years, and and I I made them.
<v Speaker 1>In fact, there was a movie Peggy Sue Peggy Peggy
<v Speaker 1>Sue got married. I think Kathleen Turner was that a
<v Speaker 1>long time ago, And and she went back to her
<v Speaker 1>high school and uh, some kind of a f back
<v Speaker 1>I forget the premise, but she suddenly woke up and
<v Speaker 1>she was sixteen again, and her parents were there and
<v Speaker 1>she was late for school, and so she just kind
<v Speaker 1>of went with it, but she was in but having
<v Speaker 1>come from the future, she told the teacher. And I
<v Speaker 1>was the only idiot in the theater that laughed at this.
<v Speaker 1>She goes, she said, well, actually, you know no, mister Taylor,
<v Speaker 1>I happened to know for a fact that I will
<v Speaker 1>never ever, ever ever do one algebra problem once I
<v Speaker 1>leave this room.
<v Speaker 3>That's the truth.
<v Speaker 1>I will never ever ever. And I laughed like hell
<v Speaker 1>because I actually made the mistake of telling that to
<v Speaker 1>the sister Ellen Rose, who was the algebra nun. And
<v Speaker 1>she said, and I said, I am shooting for the
<v Speaker 1>lowest D minus that you have because I just want
<v Speaker 1>to pass. I only want to pass. I promise you
<v Speaker 1>I will never ever again. And this is way before
<v Speaker 1>cell phones with computers and then calculators, so you know,
<v Speaker 1>And I said, I know, I won't. You know, I
<v Speaker 1>don't know why anyone.
<v Speaker 3>Does now, God bless them seriously.
<v Speaker 1>And so she said, oh, okay, good, Uh huh lois
<v Speaker 1>du Yeah, well it's called an.
<v Speaker 3>F O.
<v Speaker 1>Iron like, yeah, I failed, and then I took it
<v Speaker 1>in uh summer school failed. Yeah, it was My parents
<v Speaker 1>were like what wait, what are we going to do
<v Speaker 1>with this kid? Jesus. Yeah, yes, I see some work
<v Speaker 1>boots in your future, mister. Somebody's going to be looking
<v Speaker 1>good in that helmet. Here, take these sunglasses. You're going
<v Speaker 1>to be looking at molten steel. So and I did
<v Speaker 1>that too, how long? Di Well? I quote unquote worked
<v Speaker 1>there for a year. But back then it was like
<v Speaker 1>you work six months, then you go on strike or
<v Speaker 1>they laid you off. It was called laid off. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and then you collect unemployment for six months.
<v Speaker 3>That's just what you do.
<v Speaker 1>It's just what you do. Wow.
<v Speaker 2>They're probably like circumnavigating some kind of labor laws. Sorry, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>oh yeah, we've employed you for this long then we
<v Speaker 2>have to do X y Z. But if you just
<v Speaker 2>go on unemployment then yeah, way.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah yeah yeah man, I should have done that with a.
<v Speaker 3>I had a three three month.
<v Speaker 4>Job at best Buy when I was I think I
<v Speaker 4>was eighteen, and I was very proud of myself because
<v Speaker 4>it was before it's called geek squad.
<v Speaker 3>So it's called right now.
<v Speaker 4>Oh yeah, it used to be called the tech benches,
<v Speaker 4>like right before they called it the geek squad, but
<v Speaker 4>same look or no ties, thank god. But it was
<v Speaker 4>just a blackpool of shirt. And I interviewed and I
<v Speaker 4>got it for the as a seasonal job, right, so
<v Speaker 4>it's just during the busy holiday season.
<v Speaker 3>Women's buying all the game. It's for the holidays.
<v Speaker 4>And so I was building computers, repairing computers, up selling.
<v Speaker 4>You know, Oh, you have this computer that all is
<v Speaker 4>a junk on it? Want me to clean it off
<v Speaker 4>for a hundred bucks, you know, wow, and.
<v Speaker 1>Sit there and delete. Yeah, take a hundred bucks.
<v Speaker 3>I mean I didn't get to keep any of that.
<v Speaker 3>That all goes, you know.
<v Speaker 4>But my point to that was, oh, after, I was
<v Speaker 4>devastated when they let me go because they said it
<v Speaker 4>was look, there's a possibility, easy possibility, you're gonna have
<v Speaker 4>to be let go. But it was the first like
<v Speaker 4>job that I had that wasn't cleaning carpets, which is
<v Speaker 4>with my dad and I adore my dad. But that's
<v Speaker 4>hard work. You know, that's some hard work clean carpets.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>I was like, yeah, it's there's harder jobs like pre pavement,
<v Speaker 4>but carpet cleaning it's you know, it's labor intensive, it's hot,
<v Speaker 4>the machines are loud and just blowing off heat.
<v Speaker 3>It's it's A, it's a it's a rougher job.
<v Speaker 4>So I'm like, I'm doing something I actually love, building computers,
<v Speaker 4>talking to people, and they let me go, and I like,
<v Speaker 4>I think I sobbed when I went back into my car.
<v Speaker 4>I was like, oh, so I should have done the
<v Speaker 4>unempoyment thing.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, yeah, yeah, the secret.
<v Speaker 3>But do you do these conventions?
<v Speaker 2>Do you do comic conventions?
<v Speaker 4>I just started last because of the Marvel Rivals game,
<v Speaker 4>so I've done I've been in about one hundred games
<v Speaker 4>at this point, but there just has been when yeah,
<v Speaker 4>and some some prominent in.
<v Speaker 2>Adam Warlock is like the voice you're most known for.
<v Speaker 2>Absolutely yeah.
<v Speaker 4>But what's cool, though, is there's other smaller roles and
<v Speaker 4>anime shows like JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Seven Deadly Sins. I'm
<v Speaker 4>I'm Ludo c l and Seven Deadly Sins and Archangel
<v Speaker 4>and uh and some other side more nuanced characters from
<v Speaker 4>other types of like YouTube things.
<v Speaker 3>And I didn't.
<v Speaker 4>Know there was any fandom for it until you know,
<v Speaker 4>this Adam Warlock character in Marvel Rivals got the clout
<v Speaker 4>for conventions to want to even bring me.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and then people walk up to the table and
<v Speaker 3>they're like, oh wait, oh wait, you're the wait you're
<v Speaker 3>in Pokemon.
<v Speaker 4>You're that guy, right, And I'm like, you care about
<v Speaker 4>the like you even know they exist because no one
<v Speaker 4>I've never had anyone tweet at me or DM me
<v Speaker 4>about these characters, even though I've announced them. But I
<v Speaker 4>don't expect people to see that one pope, right, But
<v Speaker 4>this particular character. The game was so big and still is, uh.
<v Speaker 1>Like you as long as possible.
<v Speaker 4>That they brought some of the cast out to San
<v Speaker 4>Diego Comicon last year. So we had this room there
<v Speaker 4>was like two to three thousand people standing.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I've never experienced anything like it was overnight. You
<v Speaker 3>were in that room. My god, it's crazy.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well what was it?
<v Speaker 4>I don't know if you were. I doubt your re memories.
<v Speaker 4>It was a lot going on, but both of you.
<v Speaker 4>The one element of my my voice was shot from
<v Speaker 4>because I've been doing a ton of cons and I
<v Speaker 4>got sick about a month prior, and my the symptoms
<v Speaker 4>were all gone, like I was testing negative. But my
<v Speaker 4>voice sort of likes I can't even actually impersonate it.
<v Speaker 4>My voice sort of like sounded like this, like now
<v Speaker 4>I sound like, what's what's Awski Now I sound like
<v Speaker 4>rods No, but it was. It was just kind of
<v Speaker 4>like like a huskier and up here and Locke's character
<v Speaker 4>it sits down here, it's very relaxed and there's a
<v Speaker 4>lot of resonance to it.
<v Speaker 3>That part of my voice was gone perfect, so perfect.
<v Speaker 4>Luckily I didn't there's like interviews out of me when
<v Speaker 4>I was, because they did a ton of interviews and
<v Speaker 4>no barely anyone's been like, what's.
<v Speaker 1>Wrong with Adam's voice?
<v Speaker 3>Your character?
<v Speaker 4>Like they just call you pooh, right, I mean not
<v Speaker 4>under the shoe poo, but you know.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, the.
<v Speaker 4>Good smelling poo. Yeah, honey smelling pooh. Yes, but they
<v Speaker 4>get No one said anything but on that panel, I
<v Speaker 4>was absolutely terrified because because we have to, we have
<v Speaker 4>to yell our ultimate lines, and it's it's this big
<v Speaker 4>moment in the game where it's like the epics soup
<v Speaker 4>like kind of like a he man, like I love
<v Speaker 4>the power. Oh yeah, it's it's what the fans identify
<v Speaker 4>with as the ultimate supercharge moment of their favorite character.
<v Speaker 4>Yes that you know, it was very familiar with by
<v Speaker 4>playing the game. So I was terrified that, like I
<v Speaker 4>was going to sound nothing like it. When it was
<v Speaker 4>my turn in the room of thousands of people to
<v Speaker 4>yell my line, and thank god, it sounded pretty much
<v Speaker 4>like it.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I was so scared.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>But in the next day, when we didn't have a
<v Speaker 4>jam pack schedule, I was just walking the floor and
<v Speaker 4>and that was weird because I've never had anyone right.
<v Speaker 4>So a few people were like, we do we sall it.
<v Speaker 4>I'm like, I'll just like, you know, sign whatever they
<v Speaker 4>had around. That's new to me. That's totally new to me.
<v Speaker 3>And but I walked. I didn't. I wasn't walking around
<v Speaker 3>to do that. I wasn't walking around like anyone there.
<v Speaker 4>It was just it just was random, and I just
<v Speaker 4>want to actually see what was going on. And what
<v Speaker 4>was one of those things that was going on is
<v Speaker 4>you were on the floor and I had never met you,
<v Speaker 4>and I was waiting in a fairly short line, and
<v Speaker 4>you had a very good handler assistant vetting like, so.
<v Speaker 1>You're actually gonna you know, buy something?
<v Speaker 3>Are You're just gonna waste gems time?
<v Speaker 4>She didn't talk like that, but she that was the
<v Speaker 4>that's her job. And I was just like, oh, I'm
<v Speaker 4>actually I'm not gonna I just I just Alicia shake
<v Speaker 4>his hands. He's one of the legends, you know, like
<v Speaker 4>I would love to meet him. Just I'll make it
<v Speaker 4>very quick. I'm not going to chat as you're off.
<v Speaker 4>I pro I said, to give myself more cloud. I'm like,
<v Speaker 4>I'm actually here as a talent. You know, I was
<v Speaker 4>on the panel, and.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I did actually have that badge, right, but.
<v Speaker 4>There's a lot of people with industry badges and stuff.
<v Speaker 4>So so she was just doing her job to make sure.
<v Speaker 3>But luckily when she was doubting if.
<v Speaker 4>I was a legit actor, yeah, I could just feel
<v Speaker 4>it going south. The one of we share one of
<v Speaker 4>the same talent or con managers celeb works and I
<v Speaker 4>can't remember who it was because there's a lot of
<v Speaker 4>people work for them, but they were sitting next to you,
<v Speaker 4>and so before it was my turn, he says Jordan
<v Speaker 4>Jordan Reynolds, and I'm like, yeah, that's me. We rep
<v Speaker 4>you right, like yeah, and so he's like he's fine,
<v Speaker 4>let him up. Oh yeah, I'm not just some creepy fan.
<v Speaker 4>It's just like I want I want to stroke Jim's hand,
<v Speaker 4>please me. So that's how I felt like I was
<v Speaker 4>coming across to the lady.
<v Speaker 3>So I came up. It was very brief, but my
<v Speaker 3>voice was so blown out.
<v Speaker 4>I had to like lean over the table and it
<v Speaker 4>was I'm like, I'm like, hey, Jimmy, oh no, I
<v Speaker 4>am so and You're like, oh, it's very kind.
<v Speaker 1>Well, you know, it's funny. There's a lot of people
<v Speaker 1>that I think get excited or something and they burst,
<v Speaker 1>like by Saturday night or Sunday morning their voices. Could
<v Speaker 1>you make this one out to Lenny Lenny Kirks sorry,
<v Speaker 1>And I said, yeah, well, if you're catchy, stay the
<v Speaker 1>hell away here write it down exactly.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's the scary part I actually had.
<v Speaker 3>You know, there's a wide range of people.
<v Speaker 1>Social skills of fans, right, yeah, very wide range. And
<v Speaker 1>that's very well said, by the way, Yes, it's much
<v Speaker 1>better than sane. A lot of people are just assholes.
<v Speaker 4>I was call an asshole, which I would never say that. No, No,
<v Speaker 4>there's I'm not talking about like the straight up assholes.
<v Speaker 3>I'm talking more just like you know, social cues and
<v Speaker 3>things like that.
<v Speaker 4>Oh, sure, you know, there's we're not all perfect at it,
<v Speaker 4>but there was. I was at a con and this,
<v Speaker 4>you know, it's probably late teens, early twenties. And he
<v Speaker 4>came up to my table. Luckily it was a deeper
<v Speaker 4>table because he was just like he was coughing a
<v Speaker 4>little bit, but he didn't I usually can hear because
<v Speaker 4>you know, voice actors have very sharp ears. I don't
<v Speaker 4>even know your voice. I've never heard you speak, but
<v Speaker 4>I can hear if there's something going on most of
<v Speaker 4>the time, like he didn't quite have that, but and
<v Speaker 4>he wasn't quite coughing either, but he proceeded to introduce himself,
<v Speaker 4>not buying anything, just wanted to just say hi, very quickly,
<v Speaker 4>and he said something along the lines of he said,
<v Speaker 4>what do you say. He's just like he's like, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>I leryngitis, and it's like really, it's so bad.
<v Speaker 3>It's contagious. I just got it like yesterday, and I'm like, oh, thanks, okay.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I kind of like the the elves on the
<v Speaker 4>Christmas Story, like like nice football.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, I can't get sick.
<v Speaker 2>It's my job, kidding.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's.
<v Speaker 3>A terrifying part of it.
<v Speaker 2>One thing that cracks me up when I go to
<v Speaker 2>conventions with Jim is they'll come up to gym. Some
<v Speaker 2>people will come up and be like, so you were
<v Speaker 2>Fuzzy Lumpkins, you were dark wing Duck, and Jim's like yes, yes,
<v Speaker 2>and then they'll just like start naming characters that he was.
<v Speaker 2>And then Jim's like yes, and it's like all right,
<v Speaker 2>pleasure to meet you. Just walk away.
<v Speaker 1>You know why.
<v Speaker 3>That probably made their day.
<v Speaker 4>You know, you don't seems very odd, but every everyone
<v Speaker 4>just has different things.
<v Speaker 3>That fulfill them.
<v Speaker 4>And and it's been I appreciate it because it takes
<v Speaker 4>a lot of courage for these people to come up.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, you know sometimes yeah, yeah, you.
<v Speaker 4>Can see people literally share oh god, yeah, you know,
<v Speaker 4>and and Pool gets a lot of tears.
<v Speaker 1>I bet, yeah, yeah, I've got I have tissues on
<v Speaker 1>the table, you know, a box of clean You're serious? No, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I do, yeah, wow, because uh, you know, and it's
<v Speaker 1>always really a sweet lady, a woman, you know, it's
<v Speaker 1>you know, it's a should be sitting there.
<v Speaker 5>And as we standing there spot she's a really big
<v Speaker 5>poo fan. She and I just and then I get
<v Speaker 5>up and hug them, and then they then they then
<v Speaker 5>they you know, they usually you're a eate or.
<v Speaker 1>Something, and I mean had one of those.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I'm looking forward to.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, actually I might have made that last part.
<v Speaker 4>You have you have snotsuckers, tissue and diapers on the table.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, anyone?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I almost said something else, but I didn't.
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<v Speaker 2>Well, I think it's that time of this podcast where
<v Speaker 2>we do a little voice swap. What do you think, right?
<v Speaker 3>Sure? Yeah, terrifying, But it's actually be terrifying if we
<v Speaker 3>hadn't try to do the other person's voice, which you
<v Speaker 3>should try to get somebody do.
<v Speaker 2>But people get so scared by that. Like it because
<v Speaker 2>people assume that right away and you can see like, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>they go, oh hell, hardened veterans and they're like, voice swap,
<v Speaker 2>I can't do those voices.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, no, man, I love it because I'll make his
<v Speaker 4>rebrief there is I took Groundlings classes and they they
<v Speaker 4>put you through it right, and I had done enough
<v Speaker 4>improv and I think it's because I've done a lot
<v Speaker 4>of voiceovers my full time job when I was doing it,
<v Speaker 4>and the classes that is. And there was this exercise
<v Speaker 4>we had to do and there's like twelve of us,
<v Speaker 4>and the exercise was all the students, Oh my god,
<v Speaker 4>it's so crazy. So I sit here in a chair
<v Speaker 4>and the eleven students who've been in this class with
<v Speaker 4>me for weeks, so we've really got to know each
<v Speaker 4>other's voices and mannerisms, personalities. The exercise is for the
<v Speaker 4>eleven students to go up on the stage. It's just
<v Speaker 4>a room and you sit there and the teacher's like,
<v Speaker 4>all right, everyone do your best. Jordan Reynolds go and
<v Speaker 4>everyone starts like so but you're all talking at the
<v Speaker 4>same time, so you're having to pick out phrases they
<v Speaker 4>say and how they're placing their voice.
<v Speaker 1>And I was like crying. I thought it was so funny.
<v Speaker 4>I loved it, but not the other Like it was
<v Speaker 4>like half of the students were just mortified, which is
<v Speaker 4>not a natural exercise. But I loved thankfully confident enough
<v Speaker 4>now and thick enough skin that I just think it.
<v Speaker 3>Was so fun. But I can't remember what the point
<v Speaker 3>of the exercise.
<v Speaker 2>It's an interesting thing to probably just to get over
<v Speaker 2>the fear of performing in public. Perhaps, Yeah, but you know,
<v Speaker 2>they do studies where on average, people fear public speaking
<v Speaker 2>more than death. Yes, more than death. People would rather
<v Speaker 2>die than speak in public.
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely.
<v Speaker 1>Wow. Yeah, no, I've heard that a lot.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, and I get it.
<v Speaker 2>It's but yeah, but it's like a primal thing, you know,
<v Speaker 2>like if you you know, we're animals at the end
<v Speaker 2>of the day, if you see a whole bunch of
<v Speaker 2>you know, potential threats locking eyes on you, you know,
<v Speaker 2>it's like, oh, like I am surrounded, you know, And yeah,
<v Speaker 2>it can be intim I never really had stage right
<v Speaker 2>at all. I loved performing. I loved being up in
<v Speaker 2>front of people, like I wanted the attention. But I
<v Speaker 2>can definitely like when I do perform, there's there's like
<v Speaker 2>an anxiety, like not a bad anxiety, but there's like
<v Speaker 2>an energy that swells up.
<v Speaker 3>You know, I'm on you know.
<v Speaker 2>It's like and I use that, I've.
<v Speaker 1>Used that to fuel of performance exactly.
<v Speaker 2>But I can see how that can be crippling to people,
<v Speaker 2>you know, Like.
<v Speaker 4>Well, performing is different than like a public speech, which
<v Speaker 4>all that stuff. To me, it's all that's so serious,
<v Speaker 4>but it's like I'm here to read the script or
<v Speaker 4>it's like if it's a eulogy or a political thing,
<v Speaker 4>all of that has a very serious, adult like connotation
<v Speaker 4>to it, Whereas what we get to do as actors,
<v Speaker 4>we're just being idiots.
<v Speaker 3>Like especially if we get to we.
<v Speaker 7>Could completely get to change our voice into something that
<v Speaker 7>is absolutely not who this is my crappy and the
<v Speaker 7>killing but it's actually no showdo that's not where poo lives,
<v Speaker 7>but it's.
<v Speaker 4>But we get to do that, right, So there's I
<v Speaker 4>feel like we can kind of escape and tap into
<v Speaker 4>something that isn't us, Whereas if it's like public speaking speech,
<v Speaker 4>it's just you trying to be the perfect version of you.
<v Speaker 3>No ums, no butts. So I think that's what people
<v Speaker 3>associate with.
<v Speaker 1>No thanks, take me out back, Yeah, give me a
<v Speaker 1>script read from.
<v Speaker 3>The ear please? Ex anyways, I mean to derail from
<v Speaker 3>the exercise.
<v Speaker 2>All right, here we go. Okay, well how it works?
<v Speaker 2>Is there any characters you would like to request?
<v Speaker 1>Oh?
<v Speaker 3>Man, m you mentioned dark wing. Yeah, we got to
<v Speaker 3>get a dark wing duck in there, if you.
<v Speaker 4>Don't mind, okay, and uh, let's do the King Louis.
<v Speaker 1>Louis, King Louis sure, yeah, King Louis right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I wasn't like it was king something.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, because you you've inherited. Yeah, yes, and it's it's
<v Speaker 4>just I just love that character.
<v Speaker 1>Somemore good. Yeah, me too, Yeah, me too. I always
<v Speaker 1>have loved him. Yeah, he's he's one of my all
<v Speaker 1>time favorites, went away, all right, one of my top
<v Speaker 1>six maybe, wow, something like that.
<v Speaker 3>I love that question, though, what's your favorite? What's your
<v Speaker 3>favorite you've ever done?
<v Speaker 1>Just pick one? I can't do you can't really do that? Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that one? Which one?
<v Speaker 2>Do you like? That?
<v Speaker 1>That was it?
<v Speaker 3>How did you know?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, all right, dark dark wing duck all right?
<v Speaker 1>Started off show, so I I and then he explained
<v Speaker 1>to him.
<v Speaker 2>You'll do and then let's do add more luck okay, okay.
<v Speaker 1>I am the terror that flaps in the night. I
<v Speaker 1>am the terror that flaps in the night.
<v Speaker 2>Doesn't sound very flapping now he actually flaps, now, he
<v Speaker 2>actually flies. Yeah, no idea.
<v Speaker 4>How happy I am because I play and stream and
<v Speaker 4>everything is, oh my god, I saw you playing with
<v Speaker 4>Neckros not too long.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah that was That's a wild ride.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah oh yeah it was Nechroas and Bulger and I
<v Speaker 4>love to impersonally Boger he has, Yeah, this is Bulger.
<v Speaker 3>He's like, he's like, no, that's that ship. Bro, No,
<v Speaker 3>I don't even know what why would you why?
<v Speaker 4>That's yeah, I'm strange man, and like it's a very
<v Speaker 4>light accent.
<v Speaker 2>Where is she from Marble Rivals that I'm crying?
<v Speaker 3>I love I love both of them.
<v Speaker 2>Hey, necroso I will.
<v Speaker 3>I'll give you a clip afterwards where I impersonated in
<v Speaker 3>front of him, I think. But okay, so yeah that
<v Speaker 3>was all right.
<v Speaker 4>So that was Adam doing dark Wing Duck, which is
<v Speaker 4>something I never imagined not to get to do.
<v Speaker 2>Well, yes, well, who was your character again?
<v Speaker 4>In Pokemon It's it's so there's all these different properties.
<v Speaker 4>But but yeah, Pokemon Masters is a game, and he's, uh,
<v Speaker 4>there's two train conductors.
<v Speaker 3>They're twin brothers, and there's Ingo, who I voice, and Emitt.
<v Speaker 4>So they look the same but they just have different
<v Speaker 4>colored coats. So they have a catchphrase.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, So it's really just one word.
<v Speaker 4>So do you want do you want a one word
<v Speaker 4>option which is just all aboard.
<v Speaker 3>Or do you want a.
<v Speaker 1>Few more words to play with a few more words
<v Speaker 1>I played with?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, so another This is a very endearing line, he says.
<v Speaker 4>Ingo from Pokemon Masters says, there is no I think
<v Speaker 4>it's yeah, here we go.
<v Speaker 3>Remember there is no terminal called end in your life.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, so this will be King Louis then Yes, Remember
<v Speaker 1>there was no terminal called end in your life? Son?
<v Speaker 2>Wait can you do that one? I feel like that
<v Speaker 2>would be such a good Pooh quote, very philosophical.
<v Speaker 1>Remember there is no terminal called end. I think in
<v Speaker 1>the hundred.
<v Speaker 3>Acre wood, I love it so much.
<v Speaker 1>Please pass the honey right here?
<v Speaker 3>Yells everything?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I got a yallon excellent. What's what are you
<v Speaker 1>off to next?
<v Speaker 3>Today? A power nap?
<v Speaker 7>Do you know?
<v Speaker 3>I don't ever feel more powerful after a power nap?
<v Speaker 4>This week we'll see I probably can't talk just.
<v Speaker 2>Like projects coming up everything?
<v Speaker 4>What can we actually talk about until it's out where
<v Speaker 4>people see?
<v Speaker 2>I will say.
<v Speaker 4>The next thing I could that's announce is wonder con
<v Speaker 4>are you going to be there?
<v Speaker 1>We are?
<v Speaker 2>That's in Orlando, right, oh?
<v Speaker 3>No, maybe there's an Orlando.
<v Speaker 2>Oh no, think Medica. Yeah, it's Mega Con. Yeah, I
<v Speaker 2>think going to wonder Con. I think so, I don't think.
<v Speaker 3>I can't never just like just point and I'll walk.
<v Speaker 3>They'll drive there.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, because we're doing we're doing this live at a
<v Speaker 2>bunch of conventions. So I've been traveling with time.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>People get a kick, yeah, audience sorry yeah yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>that's just a whole different kind of energy.
<v Speaker 3>So but yeah, I'll be a wonder Con and Ana.
<v Speaker 4>I'm at the end of this month. I don't know
<v Speaker 4>when this post, but.
<v Speaker 2>This will be like two three weeks, okay, so you'll.
<v Speaker 3>Be like right right around.
<v Speaker 4>The other ones are like Fandom Con, Silicon Valley, Anime
<v Speaker 4>of Sac Anime.
<v Speaker 2>Anime is a good one.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that's the first time there.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's a good one.
<v Speaker 4>And the big one is New Zealand. I've never been.
<v Speaker 4>We're going to be it's like farming ed in con
<v Speaker 4>in Auckland.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's a lot of fun.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so we'll be there.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, watch out for the ruse, Yeah, the kangaroo.
<v Speaker 7>The I just hope I run into Chris hemswith I
<v Speaker 7>know he's actually Australian. But I want to show him
<v Speaker 7>the best Chris Hems with it I could do and
<v Speaker 7>see if he's impressed by it.
<v Speaker 2>That's damn good.
<v Speaker 1>It's that bad.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I do sound alike work, but I haven't been
<v Speaker 4>able to do him yet.
<v Speaker 3>So he's on my bucket list.
<v Speaker 1>That's good. That's good.
<v Speaker 2>Well, that's great. Thank you so much for being here.
<v Speaker 3>Thank you, Thank you for having me. Is seriously good
<v Speaker 3>an honor Hans.
<v Speaker 2>What are you doing?
<v Speaker 1>Absolute thank you, thank you, and.
<v Speaker 2>I wish we could go longer. You're fascinating to listen
<v Speaker 2>to it.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, all.
<v Speaker 4>That failed high school years get a lot of philosophy
<v Speaker 4>of the brain.
<v Speaker 1>There'll be a quiz. So I hope you were taking notes.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yes, thank you guys all so much for watching.
<v Speaker 2>That was another episode of Tuna with Jim Cummings. I'm producer,
<v Speaker 2>Chris the Legend himself, mister Jim Cummings and Jordan Reynolds.
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